Tenured, tenure-track, and clinical faculty as well as lecturers, instructors, and adjunct faculty who have teaching appointments of greater than 49% and have been teaching at UIC for at least three years.

All UIC tenure-track faculty members engaged in research in natural sciences with the with a tenure code higher than four are eligible to apply but preference will be given to mid-career and senior tenure-track researchers who have already exhausted their start-up funds.